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(1830 - 1908)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he gave his age as 33 and was a farmer in Barnstable, MA. He enlisted in Sandwich on 18 May 1861, giving his occupation as harness maker, and mustered in as a Private in what became Company D, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May. He was detailed as a wood cutter over the winter of 1861-62.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his right knee in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 September then transferred to Philadelphia on 25 September. He was discharged for wounds on 24 November 1862.
After the War
By 1865 and to at least 1870 he was a harness maker living in New Bedford, MA. He may also have served as a state police deputy constable from 1865-67 and was also a Justice of the Peace in Bristol County by 1874. In 1880 he was a letter carrier in Boston but by 1900 was back in New Bedford, by then listed as a retired janitor.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from Nelson3 and the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, the Massachusetts Census of 1865, and the Massachusetts Register and Business Directory (1874). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary F Crocker (1830-) in January 1848 and they had 4 daughters by 1855. He married again, Caroline E. Phinney (1845-1923) in June 1864 and they had a son and two more daughters.
Birth
07/19/1830; Nantucket, MA
Death
10/13/1908; New Bedford, MA; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 295 [AotW citation 29935]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29936]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 167 [AotW citation 29937]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #259 [AotW citation 29938]